"Shotgun" ethernet (using two cards at once)

I would like to set up a machine that can use 2 ethernet cards at the same time to access the internet in order to distribute the workload. I know this was done once with modems a couple of years back, but I would like to do it with ethernet. Dont worry about Operating systems, I will set up anything that can use it. Dont worry about the connections either, if I get this working, I will be using it at home with a DSL and a cable modem. I also plan on using it at work so I can have a file server provide more than the simple 100mb connection. If you have an answer let me know, no matter how complicated it seems.... as long as it works, I wont care.

I think this is what you looking for, just click on the link below and that should tell you exactly what to do to achieve network adapters load balancing on Windows.
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/951/

For home, I doubt you're going to get the performance you expect. What's the point of having 2 100Mb NIC's "load balancing" when your two Internet feeds are <2Mb each? It's not the NICs holding you up.

At work, if you have multiple clients hitting one server, yes, load balancing may help. However, if it's server to server, load balancing won't help because of the way that most implementations choose which connection to use - between servers A and B they ALWAYS choose the same port/NIC.

It's a lot easier on a server - if you're using Wintel, M$ has some OS/Hardware loadbalancing (ugh) - HP/Compaq has NIC teaming.

At home I would have 2 separate connections, one 500k cable, and one 1.5mb DSL... I cant connect one ethernet card into both, so one into each would still give me a better connection than just one NIC.

I have tried the RegHack, but it doesnt look like it is working, but I am still testing it, thanks for the suggestion anyway.

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Having two Internet connections -- DSL + cable -- means having two IP addresses, probably through different providers. Load balancing between them is *NOT* going to be trivial.

The closest working thing to it I can suggest is to make the slower one the default route, and add a 128.0.0.0/1 (that's a network AND MASK of 128.0.0.1) to the faster connection's gateway. So you'll get to about 55% of Internet destinations via the faster connection and the remaining 45% via the slower.

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